Vocab
Ordering objects or events compared to other objects or events.
Relative Dating
A set of fossils are homologous (similar structures) except for each younger fossil has a larger neck vertebrea. What is this evidence for?
What is evolution
What type of rock are fossils most often found in?
What is sedimentary
an animal can become trapped in these materials sometimes preserving the entire body
What is tar and ice
They have not found T-Rex fossils and Stegosaurus fossils in the same rock layer. What does this suggest?
That they did not exist together
Determining the actual age of an object in years.
Absolute Dating
Define fossils.
Fossils are the traces or remains of organisms that lived long ago.
The age of Earth.
What is 4.6 billion years?
Indirect evidence of life in the past that may include footprints, burrows, coprolites, and tracks of living things
What is trace fossil
He wrote the theme music for Jurassic Park
Who is John Williams
The study of fossils
What is paleontology
What are some details that fossils tell us about Earth's past?
What is how the environment and climate has changed over time how life forms have changed over time. How the plates have shifted
Name of the supercontinent that once existed
What is Pangaea
a model in the shape of a living thing or its remains. Minerals or rock particles fill the space in a mold
What is a cast
He produced the Movie
Who is Steven Spielberg
Term used to describe distinctly different sedimentary rock layers.
What is Strata
The interval of time required for one-half of the atomic nuclei of a radioactive sample to decay
What is half-life
What parts can become fossilized?
Hard parts/bones
forms when minerals replace the bone, shell, or other hard part of an organism turning it into stone, a common example of this fossil is wood
What is petrified
the relationship between rocks and fossils found in the same layer of rock.
They are approximately(relatively) the same age
States that layers of rock are superimposed, or laid down one on top of another. The oldest rock strata will be on the bottom and the youngest at the top.
What is the Law of Superposition
These spiral shape fossils are abundant and provide information on where oceans were in the past.
What are Ammonites
What is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago?
Meteor impact
sticky resin of plants captures insects and other invertebrates, hardening
What is amber
The super predator dinosaur created in Jurassic World
What is Indominus Rex